Excuse me for pointing this out but any student of history will tell you it repeats itself. So why do we Americans continue to try and reinvent the wheel? When this country gets lazy, obese, and zoned out on the boob tube we become wasteful,wanton, and worse we feel no shame about it.
Reuse, recycle, and restrict yourself from buying as a form of entertainment.
The economy is not any worse than my checkbook gets (on a micro scale of course) when I dip into the overage account.
When that happens I go back to basics and cook from scratch, shop at goodwill, and have a garage sale for extra cash to shop at good will. When the stuff can't be used anymore - then I take it to Good will for a tax deduction. Here's my 80 year old mother rearranging the displays for the second day of the sale. What a team player and she can still work harder than any of her children.
Besides its not and economy she hasn't seen before coming from the Great Depression Years and to her this is still the land of opportunity and the greatest country on earth. Yah!!
